Hasp.



No. 842,104. PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

' J. c. MORGAN.

HASP.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 10. 1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

' Application filed November 10,1906. Serial No. 342,852-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACK C. MORGAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Frankfort, in the county of Franklin and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hasps of the type employed for securing the doors of barns or other outbuildings, and has for its objects to provide a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character which may be readily applied to doors which open either to the right or to the left, one wherein the hasp may be secured firmly in temporary engagement with the staple for temporarily locking the door, and one wherein thehasp may be conveniently released. and disengaged from the staple when circumstances require.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of con struction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the hasp applied to a door which opens toward the left. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the hasp in use on a door which 0 ens toward the right. Fig. 3 is a sectiona view taken longitudinally through the hasp on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1 and showing the parts on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, 1' designates the improved hasp provided at its rear end with an opening 2, formed to receive a staple or other fastening member 3, through the medium of which the hasp is pivoted to a door 4, the hasp being provided adjacent its forward end with an opening or slot 5, designed to receive a staple wall 7 at a pointadjacent the door.

Formed 011 the staple 1 in accordance with ing, a finger projecting into the invention and to pro ect transversely I entrance into the staple, and

pair of opposed stapleseat at the end of the finger j escape of the latter from the staple.

of the opening 5 is a engaging portions or fingers 8, having their inner opposed ends spaced relatively, as shown, there being provided on the hasp 1 at a point adjacent the rear end of the opening 5 a bearing 9, in which is pivoted the rear end. of a latching member or bar 10, having at its forward. end an outwardly-projecting finger-piece or enlargement l1 and provided between its ends with an inwardly-projecting bearing portion or car 12, designed to 6, fixed on the building seat between the ends of the fingers 8 for maintaining one of-said fingers in engagement with the staple 6, while arranged to act on the latch member 10 and for holding the latter in latching position is a spring 13, preferably coiled on and held in place by the latch-pivoting pintle 14.

In practice and owing to the provision of the pair'of fingers 8 the-hasp may be installed upon doors which open to the left, as in Fig. 1, or to the right, as in Fig. 2,

10 may, by grasping the finger-piece 11, be swung outward to permit of the hasp being seated over the staple 6 and one of the fingers entered into the latter. After engagement of the hasp with the staple thelatch member is released and carried automatically by the spring 13 to latching position, with the bearing portion 12 seated between the ends of the fingers 8 for maintaining the for the time being active finger in engagement with the staple to temporarily lock the door in closed position. When it is desired to per manently lock the door, the shackle of a padlock is entered through the staple 6 in the usual manner. It is to be particularly observed that'owing to the provision of the latching member 10 accidental disengagement of the hasp from the staple when the door is temporarily locked is prevented.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A hasp having a staple-receiving opening, a finger projecting into said opening for entrance into the staple, a latching member pivoted on the hasp and adapted to seat at the end of the finger for preventing escape of the latter from the staple, and a spring for maintaimng the latch member in latching position.

2. A hasp having a staple-receiving opensaid opening for a movable latch member carried by the hasp and adapted to for preventing 8. A hasp having a staple-receiving opening, a finger projecting into said opening for entrance into the staple, a latch member movably mounted on the hasp and adapted for seat at the end of the finger for preventing escape of the latter from the staple, and a spring for maintaining the latch member in latching position.

I under either of which conditions the latch member IIO 4. A hasp having a staple-receiving open- In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature mg, a pair of fingers projecting into said openin presence of two Witnesses. ing and having their inner ends spaced relatively, a latch member movably mounted on JACK MORGAN 5 the hasp and adapted to seat between the \Nitnesses:

ends of the fingers, and a spring for maintain- J. MORGAN OHINN,

ing the latch member in latching position. 1 R. W. KEENON. 

